Pneumatic toy.



No. 744,630. PATENTED NOV. 17, 190.3.

' G. SCHNEIDER.

PNEUMATIC TOY.

N0 MODEL.

wifzesses UNITED STATES Patented November 17, 1903;

. PATENT OFFI CEORCESCHNEIDER, OE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AssICNOR To THEGEORGE SCHNEIDER MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, A CORPORATIONOF MARYLAND.

PNEUMATIC TOY.

SIEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,630, datedNovember-1'7, 1903 Application filed February 2 8, 1903. $erial No.145,489. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: I Be it known that LGEORGE SCHNEIDER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pneumatic Toys, ofwhich the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to improvements in pneumatic toys, and has for itsobject to provide a device which shall afford amusement.

The invention consists in the novel construction, combination, andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in whichFigure 1 illustrates a side elevation of the device; Fig. 2, anelevation of same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through aportion of thedevice. Fig. 4 illustrates a plan view of a blank from which the tubeportion of the device is formed. Fig. 5 illustrates the construction ofthe tubes as formed from a single blank. Fig. 6 illustrates a modifiedform of the device. elevation and plan view, respectively; of a modifiedform of receptacle.

Referring to the drawings by letters, a dos-- ignates a tube having atone end a rightangle extension a, both of which are formed from a singleblank 0. The tubes are connected by a neck I) for convenience inmanufacture and holding the same together during the operation ofsoldering the adjoining edges together to form an air-tight elbow b. Thetube a at its upper end is closed by a U-shaped plate (1, and said plateis provided with a hole (1. The vertical walls d of this, U-shaped plateare notched and form prongs (1 adapted to support a sphere e of suitablelight material over the hole 01. 1 A tubular.

supportf has one end f entered in the tube a and in communication withtheinterior of the latter, and the upper end f of said support projectsabove the U-shaped plate d and at its upper end supports a receptacle 9.This elevated receptacle may comprise one or more cup-shaped devices,any one of which may receive the sphere e, and in Figs.

Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate a side l, 2, and 3 the bottom of the receptacleis provided with a hole g, which opens into the tubular support f. Thelower end of the support may be secured to the tube a by solder h.

In Fig. 6 the support 2' comprises a stifi wire and is merely solderedto the tube a, and in this instance the support does not enter the tubea, as illustrated in the preferred form. p

The operation is as follows: The sphere e is placed on the prongs d ofthe U-shaped plate, and the end of the tube a is placed in the mouth ofthe operator. The first object is to elevate a receptacle, asillustrated by broken lines in Fig. 3. After this has been accomplishedthe second object is to dislodge the sphere from the receptacle by againblowing through the tube a and deposit the sphere in its original placeon the prongs d In case the modified form is employed and the receptaclehaving a plurality of cup-receptacles is used each of the receptaclesmay i be given a different number'and the number of the receptaclereceiving the sphere credited to the operator.

Having thus fully describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pneumatic toy comprising a horizontal and a vertical tube at anangle with respect to each other and each having a passage-way'incommunication with the other; a

U-shaped plate closing the upper end of said vertical tube, the verticalwalls of said plate having notches to form a plurality ofsupporting-prongs and the bottom of said plate having a central opening;a sphere; a vertitically-projecting support secured at one end to saidvertical tube and projectingin a parallel direction with said verticaltube but in a difierent vertical plane from said tube, and a concavereceptacle at the upper end of said support, said concave receptaclehaving a position in a horizontal plane above said U- shaped plate andin a vertical plane beyond said U-shaped plate and adapted to receiveand partly inclose said sphere.

2. A pneumatic toy comprising a horizontal tube and a vertical tube andhaving passage-ways in communication with each obher; asphere;atubularsupporbsecuredto saidvertical tube and havingapassagewhich isincommunication with the passage-way of said vertical tube, and acup-receptacle sustained by said tubular support and having an openingin its bottom which is in communication with the passage of said tubularsupport. to

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

GEORGE SCHNEIDER. Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jr., H. F. MEYER, Jr.

